Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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On page 2 of his opening statement, Mr. O'Brien states that Deloitte exchanged draft documents with both parties. He then goes on to say that this is the norm and that it is reasonable to expect that both parties under review would have the opportunity to comment and to offer feedback for consideration. That happened with the HSE and with the service provider. The service provider was very happy that the 15-page report had reflected matters accurately; it had input and said so. We are then told, however, that a particular table was removed to avoid confusion. Who exactly was going to be confused by that table? Only a limited number of people were going to be reading this report. I would have thought that, for such a change to be made, something a service provider found to be objectionable would have been something of which an independent reviewer would have taken very serious note.

Without a copy before us, it is impossible for us to adjudicate upon it. Essentially, what happened here is there was some kind of engagement between the HSE and Deloitte. We probably do not need to see the table as much as we need to see that engagement on the changes that were to be made to the report. That would tell us an awful lot.